CVE-2021-24544

CVE-2021-24544: Responsive WordPress Slider <= 2.2.0 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown
Product Responsive WordPress Slider
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published October 25, 2021
Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Responsive WordPress Slider WordPress plugin through 2.2.0 does not sanitise and escape some of the Slider options, allowing Cross-Site Scripting payloads to be set in them. Furthermore, as by default any authenticated user is allowed to create Sliders (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slider-can-be-changed-from-any-user-even-subscriber/, such settings can be changed in the plugin's settings), this would allow user with a role as low as subscriber to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the slider list and could lead to privilege escalation by creating a rogue admin account for example.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 25, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated

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